Ranchi, Oct. 10: Chief minister Arjun Munda today announced a number of measures to fight drought and curb hunger in the state.

At a one-day regional meet on drought, Munda declared that farmers would soon get crop insurance policy claims, while the government would provide clean water to every remote village in the state.

ARNARAM POONAR & SUJATA RAGHAVAN Charkha Features

THE definition of poverty has been at the core of discussions and commitments at the international level to address it and, by a logical conclusion, to eradicate it. This intent is the basis for the lofty Millennium Development Goals adopted by the UN member-states and international organisations at the beginning of this century.

A CONFLICT has risen between the National Advisory Council (NAC), chaired by Ms Sonia Gandhi, and the rural development ministry over the time-frame for completing the BPL census.

NAC members N C Saxena and Harsh Mander, in particular, want the head count to be completed by September 2011.

The state government is determined to hike the compensation to farmers committing suicide and those dying due to natural calamities.

Bhopal, Aug 18:
On one hand Chief Minister is making announcement of new schemes for farmers, rural people and poor while on the other hand district administration is depriving the poor of their livelihood in the name of development.

Rashtriya Jagaran Manch president Kameshwar Sharma informed that district mining office Bhopal is violating mining rules and permission is being given for mining